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Hedley, G.J., Ward, A.J., Alekseev, A., Howells, C.T., Martins, E.R., Serrano, L.A., Cooke, G., Ruseckas, A. and Samuel, I.D.W. (2013) Determining the Optimummorphology in High-Performance Polymerfullerene-Organic Photovoltaic Cells. Nature Communications, 4, 2867-2876.
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• TITLE: Impedance Spectroscopy for Annealing-Induced Change of Molybdenum Oxide in Organic Photovoltaic Cell

  AUTHORS: Toshifumi Kobori, Norihiko Kamata, Takeshi Fukuda

  KEYWORDS: Organic Photovoltaic Cells, PTB7-Th, MoOx, Annealing, Impedance Spectroscopy

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry, Vol.7 No.8, July 28, 2017

  ABSTRACT: Organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs) have been investigated for a long time, and practical realizations have been also in progress due to their high photovoltaic performance over 12%. In this study, we fabricated normal OPVs and investigated the reason of an improved optical-to-electrical conversion efficiency by annealing the MoOx layer. The photoconversion efficiency was improved up to 5.65% from 2.05% after annealing at 160°C for 5 min, and the external quantum efficiency also increased for all the measurement wavelength ranging from 300 to 900 nm. Especially, the short circuit current density increased among photovoltaic parameters. The carrier transport resistance of photoactive layer was found to be reduced by evaluating the impedance measurement. These results indicate that defects at the MoOx/organic interface were successfully reduced by the thermal annealing process of MoOx layer. The efficient carrier transport was realized for the annealed-device, resulting in the high device performance. In addition, the relaxation and electron recombination times were also reduced by the annealing process, which lead to the improved photovoltaic performance.